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Fast Speaking Woman (1974)

Anne Waldman

Giorno Poetry Systems Anne Waldman

Title: Anne Waldman: Fast Speaking Woman (Track 08)
Released on the compilation: Giorno Poetry Systems - The Dial-A-Poem Poets. Disconnected (1/2)
Publisher: Giorno Poetry Systems records, New York
Date: 1974
Medium: 2 records 30 cm
Cover: Les Levine

 

Anne Waldman used choral and sprechgesang as a central element of her poetry in all her artistic
works. This was also the case in Fast Speaking Woman, which she published as a book in 1974 and
performed repeatedly. On the publication of a new edition to mark the 20th anniversary of the work,
she wrote: "The poem is a textured energy field or modal structure. The poems for performance
seem to manifest as psychological states of mind. They come together in a mental, verbal, physical,
and emotional form, making their particular demands on my voice and body. I am the 'energumen'.
The poem is the experience."

PS